We are not born for ourselves alone.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

The real friend is another self.